Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
-
I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
-
When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
-
After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
-
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
-
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
-
There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
-
I do yoga; I'm pretty dedicated.
-
You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
-
I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
-
I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.
-
Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
-
Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
-
In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.
-
There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.
-
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
-
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
-
Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.
-
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
-
We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
-
There is something about the live performance of an orchestra that makes it very different to a film. With a film, you can rewrite it in a way with the material you have, and in rehearsals, you're really trying out different things. In an orchestra, you can't do that. They separate as soon as the performance factor comes into play.
-
Startups are often very undercapitalised, but I found that to be very beneficial because it forces you not to throw money at problems. Instead, you learn all the nuts and bolts of what you're doing and become an expert.
-
Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again; idly, aimlessly, unthinking, and unguided.
-
You can throw away your script more easily than you can throw away your film.
